21:32.

History class today was about The Stolen Generation.

While watching a video with footage of interviews with Aborigines who were taken away from their families as children, tears welled up in my eyes a couple of times.

The horror they had to face, both parent and offspring, when the white man just came and take the children away. What horrors they have to face, parents lost and helpless and children just as so in missions and government institutions miles and miles away from home.

Brought up to be slaves. Brown babies to assimilate into white society. Black folks to be segregated.

Those taken lied to about their real families, given new names, brainwashed, inculcated into the homogenous lives the official agenda would have them live. Which weren't lives at all really.

What barbarous behaviour. What inhuman perpetuation. What evil was done unto the original people of this land on which I am residing on.

My racism course is not easy, not easy because every lecture and readings, you confront the evil of men, the wrongs we have done.

The church played a role in the stolen generations. It seems that so many times in history, the church, the body of Christ confused Christ with race or economics. So much wrong was done in the name of right.

Did those who perpetuate it know? The sisters and reverends, were they genuinely misguided? How could there be folks who preached justice in slavery because they believe the black race to be descendents of Ham who was cursed?

What wrongs have been done in the name of right indeed.

What number of hearts and homes broken, what number of souls turned away from the narrow path, what amount of tears have been shed.

When wrong is commit in the name of right.

My heart was heavy when I watched the video. Again, as in previous times when I was aware of the blood on the church's hands due to unjust events like the crusades, I felt shame.

Not shame at being a Christian.

Not shame at being part of the body of Christ.

But shame that we have been so wrong, and are so wrong at times.

So tell me that Christians should not exercise their intelligence. Tell me that we should be unquestioning. I can't. Won't. Refuse. Absolutely.

We can't right a wrong already committed but we can be serious and love. Serious and learn to really do God's will. Close to God so that we won't see man's propaganda as truth. Exercise discernment and God-given brains to see the influence of everything on everything else, and then with God's strength and grace, to pick through the chaff to glean the gold.

I'm sorry.